![]() ![]() ![]() Steinbeck is picking up our spiritual story in media res (“in the middle”), and he is correct that everything-good and evil-is mixed after the Fall. Primarily because of this book’s implications, it is a gift to know your spiritual and natural history! You will not be fully human if you don’t understand your origins in this double sense. To think of a novel as a “gift” was intriguing to us. ![]() I will try to demonstrate how these doubles are inseparable-how neither can exist without the other and how out of their groupings creativeness is born.” In WRM, we like to look at our theme for the year from all angles. Steinbeck says, “I will tell them one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest story of all-the story of good and evil, of strength and weakness, of love and hate, of beauty and ugliness. The book explained how and why he wrote East of Eden. Steinbeck wrote this book as a gift to his sons to tell them the story of their history, both natural (how their family settled in the Salinas Valley) and spiritual (the fight for good and evil in the heart of every man). Steinbeck wrote a book entitled Journal of a Novel to his close friend and editor, Pascal Covici. ![]()
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